Government Role and Responsibility

If health care is a human right, and it is, granted by our creator, not by man, then government has not only a role to play, but a responsibility to ensure its provision to every woman, man, and child.

Sessions relating to the role of government and its responsibility to ensure access to health care are listed below.

FebFeb/ThuThu/20172017

9:00 – 9:45

Opening Keynote with Denis Campbell

10:00 – 10:45

11:00 – 11:45

Panel: Ensuring Health Care for All, understanding the needs at the grassroots where folks are left out. Alex Lawson, Libby Devlin, Michael Lighty

12:00-12:45 Lunchtime Keynote

Keynote by Toni van Pelt

1:00 – 1:45

Mobilizing at the community level. How to foster civic engagement by superimposing an organizational infrastructure on top of a tidal wave of progressive sentiment. Libby Devlin

2:00 – 2:45

Margaret Flowers: Challenges for State Efforts

3:00 – 3:45

Libby: Organizaing 101 for Health Care For All

4:00 – 4:45

Tom Wells : A Plan of Use the 2018 Blue Wave in the House to Push HR676 Through the Senate. And how that redounds to electability

4:45-6:00

Networking

DINNER

Keynote By Nina Turner, OUR REVOLUTION, Other Speakers As Well

FebFeb/SatSat/20182018

GVT. ROLE

9:00 – 9:45

Panel: The High Cost Of Waiting For Single Payer: Dr. Gerald Friedman, Tom Wells (Candidate for U.S. Congress), Tim Canova (Candidate for U.S. Congress)

10:00 – 10:45

Lois Frankel

11:00 – 11:45

Panel with Torrens, Canova

12:00-12:45 Luncheon Keynote

Keynote by Michael Lighty, Policy Director for National Nurses United

1:00 – 1:45

Mark Dudzik Panel: Labor for Single Payer - Fred Frost, Bill Sauers - Why Medicare for All is a labor issue and how the resources and organizing capacity of organized labor could be a game changer for the healthcare justice movement.